January 22, 2008

Saving the Trees and Killing the Children

By Kyle-Anne Shiver
What can be said of a society that has reached such a ludicrous level of moral confusion that it cannot even make the simplest value judgment, cannot even distinguish between the value of a tree and the value of a newly conceived, perfectly innocent, unique human being formed in God's own image?A society adept at saving the trees and killing the children.Can we rightly call this "enlightened"?Dare one call it "progressive"?Well, yes, actually.  Believers in this absurd value system call it those things all the time, as though anyone with a single grain of common sense could fall for such diabolical rubbish.Yet a great many among us have fallen for this absurdity, are indeed still falling for it, everyday and in almost every place one looks.Whenever I try to describe for young people today what life in middle-class America was actually like in the 1950s and 1960s, they tend to stare at me as though I must have lived in a convent.  It's truly difficult for...(Read Full Article)